Why do people like this exist?

[Rd]

I was watching a video of one of the guys that ganged raped an innocent girl in Ohio as he laughed about it and joked about how "dead" she was after the rape happened. This rape happened five months ago and this guy still hasn't been charged with ANYTHING. He freaking confessed on camera. Apparently, the prosecutor for the town is his mother so I have an idea why he hasn't been charged, but what I don't understand is why this case hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. That kid belongs in jail. If he doesn't go now then he's just going to end up raping--and probably killing--more and more girls. Just because he's the town's football star doesn't mean he deserves this kind of special treatment.

If you want to see the video and some of the evidence, here's the link:
http://localleaks.blogs.ru/

(Warning: some of the images, videos, and posts are very graphic and sickening. However, if you can handle it, I believe that it is worth watching just as a reminder of how silence allows cruelty to fester in this world)

Though this website was created by an anonymous person, most of the posts, tweets, pictures, and videos were taken right off of the rapists' pages. I think this crime deserves so much more attention so I am doing my part by posting it on my Facebook and twitter accounts. If anyone else is touched by the victims' situation, I believe that you should do the same because if criminals like this are allowed to exist, the next victim could be your sister, mother, daughter, girlfriend, or wife. Let's make it so that more than only 2% of rapists spend more than a day in prison.
@Shelby: Just to clarify, the video is NOT of the rape occurring. I do not believe any video of that kind has been released nor would I post it out of respect to the victim and her family.

[Shelby]

I'd rather not watch the video, but it's so incredibly sad that this is what the world has come to.

[shushi dimsum]

In the US, football or baseball players are looked up to. The rapists in this case are football players. And football is very big in their town, so they're even more revered than usual.

People who are looked up to can get away with a lot of heinous things that a regular person can't get away with. For example, when the first rape charges against Jerry Sandusky came out, most of the community attacked the victim and some even marched in the streets in support of Sandusky.

The rapists in this case have had a reputation of being rapists in that community for a long time. This is not the first time. Even so, the community forgives them. They're probably thinking: who cares that they raped Joe's kid, they didn't rape my kid, and I like football. The community has an icy cold attitude to the suffering of the victims just because the rapists are football players.

It's human nature. It's pure animal instinct. It may not look like that because people are the only animals that rationalize their animal instincts using language. But I think that's what it is.

I don't think people are any less scary than wild tigers or wolves. If they can get away with it, they will do some scary things to others.

Zestfully Clean: I think what got into their heads is that they've been treated in a special way for a long time. It made them think they're above others, and made them bold. They've gotten away with similar stuff before, which makes them think nothing of doing it again. And so far, it seems like they're right. They are getting away with rape. It's partly what I meant by human nature. Maybe not on the outside, but inside, people are cold toward each other. That's why they care more about not having a glitch in their enjoyment of football than a girl getting raped. So they're willing to look the other way.

And I do think it has to do with the fact that they're football players, because football is HUGE in that town. It's pretty much the only thing the town has going for itself.

[Zestfully Clean]

Shushi, no one "attacked the victim." The Penn State case was more complicated because Joe Paterno did more than anyone else to report the crime, and was shot down, and people went on a witch hunt for him. Yet, if Paterno didn't report it, no one would have known. Nobody was protesting in favor of Sandusky.... just because it involves a respected school sports team does not make it the same thing. This isn't even close to being the same thing as the Ohio football players, because in this case, it's now widely known that many students know about it, as well as the parents, even the principle, where we know *for a definite fact* that they covered it up. (edit - okay but they are different scenarios. Sandusky was a pedophile just happened to be the coach of a major university team, and paterno tried to get justice. These boys did this openly and no one tried to get justice.)

Anyway, the whole case with the kids in Ohio is absolutely messed up. What's interesting about this, is that I have taken all sorts of psychology and human behavior courses and I understand that there are things that will manipulate human behavior. The Stanford prison experiment was when students were given the role as fake inmates and fake guards--and it wasn't long before the "guards" started abusing the "inmates." Then you have the case, forget what it's called, where people were told they were giving huge shocks to people, to see how much people responded to authority. Even if they thought they were torturing the person being shocked, and even if they felt bad about it, the person in authority kept telling them to do it, they were instructed tokeep administering shocks and they listened. Prime examples of how people's behavior can be manipulated....

But I never, ever heard of a group of young men--even high schoolers--who would be okay with gang raping an unconscious girl, much less LAUGHING about it afterwards. It's not even about them being football players because in the end, they could have just been average teenagers. It makes me wonder if any of them have sisters, because if they did, there's no way they even took one second to think: what if this was my sister? This isn't the average "mob mentality" that happens amongst people. I just wonder what the hell could have gotten into --not one, but ALL of those kids' heads. Also, they thought they deleted those tapes. The reason why it was leaked is because of that "Anonymous" hacker, who threatened to release the kids' and parents' personal information, ss numbers etc., if they didn't make a public apology to the girl.

It is, though, wildly similar to the case in the 80's with that mentally challenged girl who was lured by a local high school football team and gangraped